The Whole Delivery

This election has featured desperation by our centrist, corporate media to make this as much of a horserace as possible. Every chance of a poll showing a tight race has been ushered onto TV producer's laps with their hosts so happy to get the news of a race being so close. Chuck Todd, Andrea Mitchell, the Morning Joe crew, and all the folks at CNN are always desperate for a nail-bitter, and have gladly mentioned any poll from any source to push that idea. But try as they might, with barely acknowledging Republican voter suppression efforts to not mess up their dream 2000 or 2004 narrative, it looks like it will not work whatsoever. And it will be incumbent (no pun intended) on many people requesting that polling organizations begin a fundamental overhaul of conducting their polls immediately. The obsession over highlighting racially excursionist "Likely Voter" models has been antiquated since 2008. Now you can apply that to mid-term election years, but with...

So brilliantly dumb, and proud of it: In a sane US journalism world, where forced and desperate centrism for ratings would not be tolerated, this would be the lead story of the day and the entire rest of the week. Instead, it's just swept under the rug by the David Gregory's and Chuck Todd's of the world. It really is wonderful to see Romney's 8th grade study night on Sunday evening produce one of many idiotic lines like this on Monday, October 22, 2012. I guess John Bolton, Dan Senor, Donald Rumsfeld and Sir Cheney from afar and his other neocon advisers most have gotten their Halliburton maps mixed up. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A flashback to yesterday.......It's Twister, the hot spot! A Fun Thread at The Whole Delivery.

I remember yesterday some condemning that "ridiculous, inane idea" that a moderator should fact-check during a debate. Well, look what happened last night. Now although Crowley really didn't want to do it (her facial reaction said it all as she tried to keep her glorified centrist self out of real journalism), she was forced into doing it by the obvious lie and misinformation Romney was throwing. Even more telling is how President Obama said, "Say it louder Candy." I remember most thinking fact checking was something a moderator shouldn't do. Thankfully, Candy Crowley left centrist journalism for one rare moment and did her job before returning to her usual centrist form. And at least in that moment of many humiliating moments for Mitt Romney last night, this is one where an undecided voter cannot say that she or he was not properly informed by the moderator. If only that could be prevalent more times than just one rare moment. It, along ...

  This man really is so elitist weird :   President Barack Obama wooed Americans not yet old enough to vote Monday in a unique children’s television news special that his rival Mitt Romney opted to avoid.  Obama fielded pre-recorded questions from under-18s on topics as varied as the economy, gun control, gay marriage and heartbreak during the half-hour program titled   “Kids Pick the President: The Candidates.” Television news veteran Linda Ellerbee, who hosted the show on the Nickelodeon children’s     channel, told viewers that Romney had been asked since April to participate in the show. But his team replied they were “unable to fit it in” to his schedule — leaving producers to put together a mash-up of Romney sound bites from the campaign trail in the interest of equal time. “I don’t know if it’s a bad thing for the Romney campaign (not to participate), but it is a bad thing for the Nickelodeon audience,” Ellerbee told AFP a few hours be...

In the crazy conservative conference of the month (Southern Republican Leadership Conference), Mitt Romney has won the straw poll over Ron paul just one vote . So the former governor of Massachusetts has won the straw poll there. You mean to tell me a socialist won at a conservative place??? My, how times are changing.

With stupid statements like blaming Obama for the rigged election in Iran, you continue to see how this guy lost to John McCain last year, who ran the worst campaign in Presidential history just to remind you. Thankfully, Joe Scarborough had an occasionally moment of intelligence pop up again : You know, the law of unintended consequences came in again. I suspect that Cairo speech really scared the grand ayatollahs in Iran. If they were going to fix an election, this was the time to fix it, because the last thing they wanted to do was Barack Obama take credit for reformers winning in Iran, like they already have in Lebanon. And by the way, in the short term that's bad news for us. I think in the long term, though -- if the ayatollahs are seen stealing an election, as a result from what Barack Obama did in Cairo -- I actually think that's a positive for the United States and Iran in the long run.

The clothes-diva news was one thing, and now this . (via the Kos diary of great david mizner ) In convo with Playbook, a top McCain adviser one-ups the priceless “diva” description, calling her “a whack job.” Whether it is a former Mitt Romney aide spilling the beans here to smear Palin for Romney's chances in 2012, make no mistake about this: The damn is wide open. Even CNN and non-Keith/Rachel shows on MSNBC is covering the story. Palin and McCain are fighting each other. All a week before Election Day. Fitting for this ticket, of course.